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Negro Folktales in Michigan / Richard M. Dorson, Richard M. Dorson.

De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Archive 1896-1999 Available online

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Dorson, Richard M., editor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
African Americans--Michigan--Folklore.
African Americans.
Tales--Michigan.
Tales.
African Americans--Folklore.
Tales--United States.
Local Subjects:
African Americans--Folklore.
Tales--United States.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (259 p.)
Edition:
Reprint 2013
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
Language Note:
English
Contents:
Frontmatter
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTENTS
LIST OF TALES
I. THE COMMUNITIES AND THE STORYTELLERS
II. THE ART OF NEGRO STORYTELLING
III. ANIMAL AND BIRD STORIES
IV. OLD MARSTER AND JOHN
V. COLORED MAN
VI. HORRORS
VII. HOODOOS AND TWO-HEADS
VIII. SPIRITS AND HANTS
IX. WITCHES AND WONDERS
Χ. THE LORD AND THE DEVIL
XI. PREACHERS
XII. LIARS AND IRISHMEN
XIII. FAIRY TALES
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND NOTES
INDEX OF INFORMANTS
INDEX OF MOTIFS
INDEX OF TALE TYPES
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
ISBN:
0-674-33025-0
OCLC:
1024040768

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